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Farm Wife
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A battleground.
That’s what it is. A battle
ground.
Signs of destruction, every
where. Piles of residual trash.
Fallen comrades. Even walking
through is hazardous, requiring
careful steps and a sharp eye to
avoid dangerous obstacles.
And that’s just the backyard.
Mother Nature fired her first
shots months ago, with early De
cember’s preview of the winter to
come. Ice storms are generally
more a March phenonemon
around here than a post-Thanks
giving happening. It was our first
introduction to the good, old
fashioned winter to follow.
And what a mess it’s made.
Fallen trees and limbs. Raw,
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jagged-edged pieces of wood,
scattered about the ground like
so many pick-up sticks strewn
about in a game. Multiple ice
storms wounded our trees, crash
ing bits and pieces of limbs,
branches, and twigs of varied
sizes all about the yard.
Residue from the mortally
slain old pussywillow still lingers,
despite an early assault on it with
chainsaw and clean-up crew to
break down its fallen carcass into
more manageable and usable
pieces. Before the chunks could
be moved, though, snow piled in
over them in layers, which in
turn were thoroughly soaked
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Which was actually the case
for most of the fallout around the
yard. All of which became laden
with more snow, more rain, more
ice, and finally, the Big Snow.
That swirled around into impres
sive dunes in the backyard, re
quiring pass-throughs with the
big tractor and its heavy blade
just to clear a space through
which to walk to scatter birdseed
for our hungry regulars.
In the process, the blade
gouged out chunks of ground and
the wheel carved deep tracks in
the glacial pack. Somewhat un
even to start with, the lawn now
mostly resembles the pothole
strewn interstate betweed the
state line. Cascades of snowmelt
runoff, detoured from their usual
engineered flow around the yard
by frozen flotsam and jetsam,
took a meandering path instead
through the lawn, adding ice
slicks to the rough and tumble ef
fect.
You don’t want to go there. Es
pecially in the dark, when you
chance tripping on a frozen-fast
branch and falling on your face
onto a sharply-jagged stick pro
truding out of the glacial residue.
While most of the region was
buried beneath the wintry snow
pack, the mess could be ignored
as an out-of-sight, out-of-mind
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issue. Goodness knows, just keep
ing up with the outside chores
most of the last three months has
kept us plenty occupied.
And, the stuff was all frozen
fast to the ground, anyway.
So when the lawn-care publi
cation turned up on the kitchen
table a few days ago, I just looked
at it and sighed. The picture of
plush, perfect green grass on the
cover is a shocking contrast to
the reality of our backyard. To
use a popular, politically-conrect
description, the yard is a “chal
lenge.”
Still, as I scattered a bucketful
of dirt and debris under the old
pine tree, sweepings from around
our diminishing woodpile, a tiny
finger of hope and optimism
waved at me. It was the slender
shoot of a small bulb, yellow
green and healthy, poking up
through the rough, ragged resi
due.
That and the flock of robins
cavorting in the grass on a sunny
road bank earlier this week
have finally convinced me that
spring is truly on the way.
The snow shovel can just stay
parked by the back door a bit
longer. But I might prop a lawn
rake there beside it.
Maybe I can scuff loose some
worms from under the leaves for
those hungry robins.
Juice Abuse
Fruit juice tastes good, children love it, and parents are happy be
cause their children are drinking something healthy.
So, what is the problem?
Children may be drinking too much of a good thing.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says adults need to cut back
on the amount of fruit juice infants, toddlers, and young children are
consuming. Adults must also distinguish between 100 percent fruit
juice and juice drinks that can contain as little as 10 percent fruit
juice. Even though many fruit juices contain potassium, as well as Vi
tamins A and C that are beneficial, the Academy believes that drink
ing excessive amounts of fruit juice is associated with diarrhea, stom
ach problems, malnutrition, and tooth decay.
Before six months of age, infants should not drink juice. When a
child is between one and six years of age. the amount of fruit juice
consumed should be limited daily to four to six ounces.
Once a child is over seven, juice intakes should be limited to eight
to 12 ounces a day. This is because many fruit juices contain carbohy
drates in the form of sugars. Juice contains no fiber unless pulp is in
cluded and contains only a small amount of protein and minerals. It
is healthier for children to eat whole fruits as part of the recommend
ed daily fruit intake. As an alternative to juice, don’t forget water.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15, 2003-B3
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